Targets for next time answering Q3

Need to present more theorists and make sure they are the correct one to fit the topic

Include technical terms

Use more media language


What was good

Adequate response. Correct and sensible knowledge and understanding of particular areas

Discussion of how industry is used to broader audience

Media language used to discuss shots that reference other media


What is representation?

How media presents other mediums, groups and subjects like race or gender

Stuart Hall:

Meanings behind images by what is there was is not there and what is different.

Representations are not fixed and can be argued

There is often an attempt to fix a preferred meaning


Long form TV dramas often subvert typical codes and conventions of their genre in order to attract wider audiences and to make social/ political comments

Steve Neal- genre theory

Butler's gender performativity theory states that gender is not fixed and is created in how we perform our gender roles. This is presented through Nancy in Stranger things as she starts off stuck in her gender stereotype of a love interest to Steve but as the episode and series continues she presents her self as a 'Final girl' of Horror movies/ series subverting the gender roles.


Paul Gilroy's theory of ethnicity suggests an condensed version of colonial history that media presents with immigrants being portrayed as criminals  creating a 'us and them' way of thought. This is present in Lupin as Asane is a Senegalese man  from a low socio-economic class subverting typical genre conventions of the heist genre found in Ocean 11.


Terminology

semiology

low angle

high angle

mid shot

diegetic sound

non-diegetic sound

wide shot


This is first represented through the 


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